5.
The Discourse on Not Knowing Consciousness
611.
At Sāvatthī.
Seated to one side, the wandering ascetic Vacchagotta said this to the Blessed One -
"What, Master Gotama, is the cause, what is the condition, by which these various wrong views arise in the world -
'The world is eternal' or 'the world is non-eternal' etc.
'The Truth-finder neither exists nor does not exist after death'?"
"Through not knowing consciousness, Vaccha, through not knowing the origin of consciousness, through not knowing the cessation of consciousness, through not knowing the practice leading to the cessation of consciousness;
thus these various wrong views arise in the world -
'The world is eternal' or 'the world is non-eternal' etc.
'The Truth-finder neither exists nor does not exist after death.'
This, Vaccha, is the cause, this is the condition, by which these various wrong views arise in the world -
'The world is eternal' or 'the world is non-eternal' etc.
'The Truth-finder neither exists nor does not exist after death.'"
The fifth.